HOWTO: 32bit mplayer on amd64 (wmv9)

[Conq]

UPDATE: I Have now made a package for Dapper Drake as well. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=62685

I quick search through the forum suggested that there is quite a lot of confusion around the issue
of playing wmv9 files on amd64. I'll try to clarify and give you a way to play wmv9 on amd64 without resorting
to a chroot.

WMV9 is a closed format. There are no open source decoders available. Mplayer uses the closed source 32 bits
windows dll's to get around this issue. But a 64 bit mplayer cannot use 32 bit dll's.

So - to get 32 bits dll's to work you need a 32 bit mplayer. But mplayer requires a lot of extra libraries, and they too have to be made 32 bits.

I have made a package that contains all the libraries and binaries (with the exception of the win32 codecs)

What you need to do to get things too work:

1. Download the essential codec package from "http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html"
2. Untar contents into /usr/lib/win32
3. Get the .deb from my website:
wget http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~grannas/deb...e6-1_amd64.deb
4. Install it:
sudo dpkg -i mplayer32_1.0pre6-1_amd64.deb
5. Update ldconfig to make sure it gets the new libraries
sudo ldconfig
6. Run mplayer32

The binary is called mplayer32 too avoid collisions with the binary from the "official" mplayer package.

NOTE: The package is a kludge, it has a lot of binaries and libraries from all over the place, it should
be split up in many packages, but it's put in a single place
NOTE: The -vo:gl might break, I have nvidia on my system, this might break yours.
NOTE: If you are getting missing libraries, please make sure that you have installed the 32 bit compability
libraries
UPDATE: The libraries are called "ia32-libs-gtk" and "ia32-libs".
UPDATE2: If you want realmedia support - grab the "all" w32codecs instead of the essential package in step 1.
UPDATE3: In addition, you need "ia32-libs-openoffice.org"
UPDATE4: If you are using this package on Breezy, and experience no sound, you might want to try "ln -s /tmp/.esd-1000 /tmp/.esd"

[tseliot]

I can't try it right now (several problems with my RAM) but if this really solves the lack of wmv9 support in 64 bit systems you're GREAT.

[tseliot]

This thing happens to me:

alberto@ubuntu:~$ mplayer32 /home/alberto/daniel.wmv
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices (Family: 8, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
3DNow supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE



Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing /home/alberto/daniel.wmv.
File not found: '/home/alberto/daniel.wmv'
Failed to open /home/alberto/daniel.wmv


And the file does exist. Any ideas?

[Conq]

Thats strange, do you have the same problem with all files?

[tseliot]

Thats strange, do you have the same problem with all files?

Yes, I do. And I have the same problem with mplayer 64bit (I installed it after yours so as to see if one of them worked)

[Conq]

Try to cat the file directly into mplayer like this:

cat foo.wmv | mplayer -

and see if that helps.

[zupermanz]

it works!...thanks!
Only one problem audio sync on live stream.... any ideas?

[Buenaventura Durruti]

root@stallman:/home/fmmarzoa# mplayer32
mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
root@stallman:/home/fmmarzoa# ls -la /usr/lib/libpng12.so.*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-01-02 23:45 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 -> libpng12.so.0.1.2.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 161032 2005-08-22 18:52 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0.1.2.8
root@stallman:/home/fmmarzoa# ldconfig
root@stallman:/home/fmmarzoa# mplayer32
mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The libraries seems to be right there. Unfortunatly, I cannot use ltrace over mplayer32 due architecture incompatiblities to do a deeper debug, but if someone knows what's happen without further information...

[Buenaventura Durruti]

The previous problem was solved just installing ia32-libs-gtk, for some reason I didn't see that package before but it appear after an apt update and then I could install it. Anyway I've another library missing problem now:

root@stallman:/etc# mplayer32
mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libdrm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I think I've now installed everything, so I do not figure out what's the problem.

[Buenaventura Durruti]

Ok, things can be done this way (I got these ideas from this thread on skype):

Download a 32bit version of libdrm, such as this:

libdrm1_1.0.3-2_i386.deb

Extract its files, this can be done with dpkg like:

dpkg -x libdrm1_1.0.3-2_i386.deb .

(The last dot means that files will be extracted in current directory).

After that, you should have an 'usr' subdirectory below your current one. So if you do:

#ls usr/lib/

from your current directory, it should show:

libdrm.so.1 libdrm.so.1.0.0

Ok, now we'll move these files to our /usr/lib32 directory, in which mplayer32 expects find them, to do that:

mv usr/lib/* /usr/lib32

Now if you do a:

ls -l /usr/lib32/libdrm*

You should get:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2006-01-03 23:37 /usr/lib32/libdrm.so.1 -> libdrm.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23032 2005-08-24 12:18 /usr/lib32/libdrm.so.1.0.0

Now just run ldconfig to update library cache:

ldconfig

And the problem with libdrm should be history.

(Of course, the majority of these actions needs root priviledges, so you should need to log as root or use sudo in each step.)